Clothes-washer



E. BEATTY.

CLOTHES WASHER.

APPLICATION FILEYD SEPT. 2, 1919.

1,338,277, Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

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CLOTHES-WASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

Application filed September 2, 1919. Seria1 No. 321,017.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD BEATTY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Washer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes washers, one of its objects being to provide a washer of the pounder type the body portion of which is collapsible and provided with air and water tight walls, there being means for collapsing and distending the said body portion so as to successively create and break a partial vacuum and thus set up a back and forth circulation of water through the fabrics being cleaned.

A further object is to provide means whereby the flexible walls of the body portion are kept in proper shapewithout interfering with the complete collapse of said body portion when desired.

A still further object is to provide simple and efficient means for collapsing and extending the body portion.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which is inexpensive and durable.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims, it being understood that various changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a vertical section through the device.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a section showing the device collapsed.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 designates a handle which can be formed of a single piece or, if preferred, can be made of two pieces placed side by side and suitably held together. A collar is connected to one end of this sleeve, as

shown at 2 and secured to this collar is a disk 3 from the periphery of which extends a frusto-conical wall of waterproofed fabric or the like, indicated at 4. In the large end of the body formed by this fabric wall is secured a reinforcing ring 5 having a diametrical bar 6 and secured to the center of said bar is a rod 7 which extends through and is slidable within the handle 1. A knob 8 or the like is provided at the upper end of this rod and, if desired, this knob may be provided with a spring catch 9 for engaging a lug 10 on the handle 1, thereby to hold the rod and handle against relative movement.

Secured within the body of the device at desired intervals are additional reinforcing rings 11 of different diameters and when the body of the device is collapsed, these rings are adapted to lie one within the other and concentric with the disk 3.

In using the device it is placed, in a collapsed condition, upon the fabrics within the water, forcing the fabrics downwardly below the surface of the water. The handle l is then slid upwardly on the rod 7 so as to distend the body, thereby creating a partial vacuum in said body and causing the water under the fabrics to rush upwardly through the fabrics and into the body. The movement is then reversed and the water will be expelled from the collapsing body and against the fabrics. In this way a rapid and thorough cleansing of the fabrics is effected. Should it be desired to use the device as an ordinary clothes pounder the rod 7 and the handle 1 can be held against relative movement by the catch 9.

What is claimed is 2- 1. A device of the class described including a handle, a hollow flexible body connected at its upper end to the handle and open at its lower end, means for holding the body distended radially, and means connected to the lower open end.of the body and movable relative to the handle for distending the body longitudinally and for collapsing the body to position with its upper and lower ends in substantially the same plane.

2. A device of the class described including a handle, a disk secured to one end thereof, a frusto-conical flexible body secured at one end to the disk and open at its other end, reinforcing rings of different diameters secured to the open end and to intermediate portions of the body, and means connected to said end ring and movable relative to the handle and disk for collapsing the body to position the rings in substantially the same plane.

3. A device of the class described including a handle, a flexible frusto-conical body connected at its small end to the handle, spaced rings secured to the body at the large open end thereof and at intermediate points, a rod connected to the end ring and slidable 10 relative to the handle, a knob on the rod,

as my own, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

EDWARD BEATTY.

Witnesses:

FRANK AMBROSE, AUT MN LOEFFLER. 

